Book-It Rep's: RETURNING THE BONES: Beyond the Theatre
Book-It Repertory presents Returning the Bones - Written & Performed by Gin Hammond, Directed by Jane Jones - March 28-April 14, 2019. The librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, CDs and DVDs to enhance your experience of the show.
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Black Cowboys
The songs and poems featured on the album are meant to take the listener on an illuminating journey from the trails to the rails of the old west. This is a century old story that follows the footsteps of the thousands of African American pioneers that helped build the United States of America.
Format: Music CD
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Children of Fire
Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past.
Format: Book
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Cocktails Across America
Cocktail culture boomed in the United States after Prohibition, starting with the jazz-filled cocktail lounges and elegant supper clubs in New York City and, as rail and automotive travel advanced, flowing all the way to the postwar-era resorts and cabaret night spots of California and beyond.
Format: Book
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Crowns
Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory, it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of various religious denominations
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Dinner Déjà Vu
Southern-born Jennifer Hill Booker traveled to Paris to study French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts only to realize that rustic French and Southern dishes use many of the same ingredients.
Format: Book
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It's All Love
Love comes in many forms-romantic, familial, and sacred-as evidenced by this impressive collection of stories, poems, and essays compiled by Golden (After) and written by such notables as Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Jill Nelson.
Format: Book
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Paris Reflections
Paris, one of the world's great cities, has a long and rich tradition of embracing people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. For over two centuries, African Americans have been among the racial and cultural mosaic that has thrived in Paris and helped to make the city a world-renowned centre of imagination and creativity.
Format: Book
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Raising the Race
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to "have it all," raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this subject, there has been little work that focuses on the experience of African American professional women or asks how their perspectives on work-family balance might be unique.
Format: Book
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement
Format: Streaming Video
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Tell Them We Are Rising
Black colleges and universities are a haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries and have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. Examines the impact these institutions have had on American history, culture, and national identity.
Format: DVD
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